We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jyshoun Sings. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jyshoun below.

Hi Jyshoun, thanks for joining us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey for every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if, knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

When I first started, people used to laugh at me. I couldn’t hear what they were hearing. All I could hear was me getting better. I locked myself in a room every day after school and sang everything I heard. My goal at the time was to be better than the people that laughed at me. Once I was actually good, everything changed. I started writing down how I felt and turning it into melodies. They started out as poems, and once I put melodies to them, they became songs. I have to admit, I am still learning my craft, and I think I always will be learning. I’m learning that you can never know enough, and you can always be better.

Jyshoun, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Jyshoun, and I wasn’t born with the talents that I have. I grew up in rough neighborhoods that often made me think about what life would be like if I lived in a better neighborhood. Most of the time, while I was out getting into trouble with my friends, I was thinking about my options and what I could do to never have to do what I was doing at the time. It seemed like we were all thinking the same thing, but none of us were figuring it out because my friends started dying and going to jail. It felt like I was part of a cycle. When I decided to do music, it wasn’t because I was good at it; in fact, I was actually the worst at it. I chose to do music because it made me feel good. At first, it didn’t matter what I was saying when I was singing; it was more about the feel. I felt pain all the time and never had a way to get rid of it until I started belting out notes. When I say I felt pain all the time, I don’t mean pain from a beating. I’m talking about the pain you get in your stomach when you’re walking home from school and have to walk through a neighborhood that is overtaken by poverty and violence. Half of the time, I’m singing as loud as I could while walking, and the other half, I’m running. I realized early in life that music was one of the things people need. They listen when they are happy, sad, mad, confused, or just because the room is too quiet. It’s like a universal language. I use that language to communicate with the world. I’m putting more love into the world because you can never have too much.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

One of my goals is to take away the typical image of a R&B singer. The only thing that should matter is how they sound.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to unlearn honesty. I use to tell other artist what I really felt about them, not realizing everyone isn’t like me.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jyshounsings.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jyshounsings/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JyshounSings